Did Megan Byron, the wife of a former Astronomer CEO, issue a "formal" statement saying that she "will not be engaging in performative forgiveness" and instead "retained counsel" and "reviewed holdings"? No, that's not true: The viral post of a statement attributed to her remains unverified. No credible media outlets reported that it was authentic.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on Facebook where it was published on July 21. 2025. The entry showed an attachment titled:
Formal Statement from
Megan Byron
(Wife of Adrew Byron -- for now)
July 18, 2025 -- Manhattan, NY
The attachment read:
It has come to my attention--and apparently to the attention of half the internet-that my husband, Andrew Byron, has made certain... choices. Public ones. Under stadium lights. During a Coldplay concert. A venue not typically associated wit-infidelity, but here we are.
Let me be perfectly clear: I am not issuing this statement in defense, nor in heartbreak. I am issuing it in power. In precis-ion. In silk gloves and sharpened wit.
I will not be engaging in performative forgiveness, nor am I interested in the optics of "grace." What Andy has done is not just humiliating-- it is banal. Common. A man of ambition brought down by his own astonishing lack of imagination.
I have retained counsel. I have reviewed holdings. I have reallocated what was once "ours" into what is now, very cleanly, mine.
I am not spiraling. I am ascending. And while Andy may have quoted Coldplay in his statement, I will simply say, when the lights went out, I saw everything clearly.
To those who expect tears--I don't cry for elowns, I schedule.
I document. I rebuild.
This is not revenge. It is refinement. And he will feel it in the silence that follows.
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of the facebook.com/LouisianaPhotography account)
Searches across Google for the key phrases of the purported statement tailored to the date of its alleged release, July 18, 2025, -- for example, here (archived here), here and here -- didn't show credible reporting corroborating that the wife of a former Astronomer CEO (archived here) actually issued such a statement.
Lead Strories previously wrote about another statement falsely attributed to Megan Byron that was making rounds on the internet.
Other Lead Stories articles about current events are here.
